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Date:      Sun, 5 Apr 1998 20:57:31 -0400
From:      Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2.2 printcap entry -- a no-go on 3.0
Message-ID:  <19980405205731.44447@ct.picker.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980403123626.10860B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 12:36:58PM -0800
References:  <19980402200534.02094@ct.picker.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980403123626.10860B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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Doug White:
 |On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Randall Hopper wrote:
 |> I had these entries in my FreeBSD 2.2 printcap (attached) and all 3 queues
 |> worked fine.  But on 3.0, the "text" queue doesn't work.
 |> 
 |> When I try to print to the text queue, the job doesn't print, and lpc
 |> gives:
 |> 
 |>   Warning: text is down: printing disabled
 |                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 |
 |Have you tried going into lpc and restarting this printer?  Looks like it
 |was disabled from lpc.

Yes, I did.  No matter what I do, the "lp" and "text" queues say printing
is disabled.  However, the "ps" queue works fine.  This strangeness is
illustrated in the shell output below.

I should mention this is with the lpd/lp* from 3.0-971208-SNAP.  May be
something has been fixed since then.  But, I figured that I had to be doing
something wrong with this lpd/lp* since I can't get a simple
straight-through queue to work, but a queue with an output filter in it (my
"ps" ghostscript queue) to the same print device works just fine.

Thanks Doug,

Randall



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stealth : ~ > lpr -Ptext .cshrc
stealth : ~ > su
Password:
stealth : ~ # lpc
lpc> status all
lp:
        queuing is enabled
        printing is disabled
        no entries in spool area
        printer idle
text:
        queuing is enabled
        printing is disabled
        1 entry in spool area
        printer idle
ps:
        queuing is enabled
        printing is enabled
        no entries in spool area
        printer idle
lpc> enable all
lp:
        queuing enabled
text:
        queuing enabled
ps:
        queuing enabled
lpc> start all
lp:
        printing enabled
        daemon started
text:
        printing enabled
        daemon started
ps:
        printing enabled
        daemon started
lpc> status all
lp:
        queuing is enabled
        printing is disabled
        no entries in spool area
        printer idle
text:
        queuing is enabled
        printing is disabled
        1 entry in spool area
        printer idle
ps:
        queuing is enabled
        printing is enabled
        no entries in spool area
        printer idle
stealth : ~ # exit
stealth : ~ > lpr -Ptext .cshrc
stealth : ~ > lpq -Ptext
Warning: text is down: printing disabled
Warning: no daemon present
Rank   Owner      Job  Files                                 Total Size
1st    rhh        71   .cshrc                                2239 bytes
2nd    rhh        72   .cshrc                                2239 bytes

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